Economic Impact Archives

I think hosting the World Cup in South Africa may be too large a burden for a smallish developing country: population 49

WFAA.com has a good story on the economic impact of mega events in Texas that is largely based upon a

In response to concerns about potential racial profiling of its players, 27% of whom are of Hispanic origin, the Major

Niels Veldhuis and Charles Lammam, responding to political criticism on a study they wrote on Canadian government stimulus attempts, have

Paragraph 4 of this from the Sports Business Daily is priceless. Can you say substitution effect? Or, as Craig Depken

We sports economists have become accustomed to inflated economic impact statements made in documents used to support subsidies for sports.

The Sports Business Journal recently published “Clubs give winter homes a branding boost” about the partnership between MLB franchises and

Among the sports-related economic nonsense that gets tossed about in the media are calculations of “lost productivity” associated with things

Frederic Bastiat’s broken windows fallacy: if a window maker breaks windows to increase business, he certainly benefits (if he doesn’t

Less than one week away from the opening ceremonies of the world’s largest sporting event, the Beijing tourism bureau predicts

Assessing the intangible impact of sports has become an important area of research in the past few years. Most research

The Dallas Morning News is examining the gap between the estimated economic impact of the NBA All Star Game and